Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [noun] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ugandan government had suspended five of its pilots for apparently carrying weapons on board a Ugandan-registered aircraft from Bophuthatswana to Zagreb , where they had been impounded by the Yugoslav authorities . |
| 2 | His spare-time activities during these years resulted in various patents , including one from 1931 concerning the Baird TV system and one in 1933 for the variable density technique of optically recording sound on film . |
| 3 | Moreover , unearthing evidence of such inequality would not cause a pluralist to challenge the basis of his or her analytical approach in the same way that evidence of the influence of non-economically based groups on state decisions has generated much tortuous re-evaluation of basic theory among Marxist scholars . |
| 4 | Like the Flying Dutchman , condemned for ever to roam the world 's oceans , the right hon. Gentleman is condemned for ever to attend debates on guillotine motions in an attempt to expiate his past sins in that area . |
| 5 | It has deviated from passionately enunciated principles on monetarism , on public spending 's rightful portion of GNP , on Ireland , on state control of education , on ( soon ) immigration , and much else . |